Best Photography WordPress Themes 2017

We present the best photography WordPress themes designed for photographers and creative people, who know that a good website is a guarantee of success. Great creative WordPress theme for photographers is not only the presentation but also the working tool.

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Photography WordPress テーマ * – what should it have?

When we talk about WordPress themes and photography, then we think about built in features. For such themes you will want them to help with your work, while also presenting your works in best possible and accessible way.

Galleries

In theme you want to have great ways to show your photos. Best would be that images are lazy loaded, to give your users feel of speed on your site. You don’t want to make user wait watching “white screen”, while your 100 photos are downloading at once.

In best photography WordPress themes you will look for features like sliders, scrollers, normal in post galleries or maybe masonry bricks galleries. More options give your creativity less boundaries. Look out for themes that have predefined maximum number of images that you can add to gallery – such themes still happens.

Speed

To be among best photography WordPress themes, template must be fast! Speed is important, as this very competitive factor in today web. Sure, if site has tens of plugins, each with own CSS and JavaScript files your site will get huge “load lag” cause of that, no matter what theme you got. When on top of that you will upload 10 x 5MB images, cause only in full res they look super crisp, then you are cooked.

Some themes try save users from themselves, by lazy loading images or resizing them beforehand. However first still can’t boost loading of 5MB image on 3G connection, and second make authors angry, cause they lose control over quality of their photos.

So in matter of speed themes should be compared as standalone installations, when they are not bloated by other components.

Responsive design & responsive images

In today world if theme lacks or sucks at being responsive, then you shouldn’t even be considering it, if you think serious about your site. This page, where you read it, has above 50% traffic coming from mobiles, so there is no point in believing that photography is only viewed at desktops nowadays. Cause of that responsive images will also benefit your site, as they just load faster.

Why would you want to push 4K photo to you user mobile screen, when browser would still be resizing it to 600×400? Not enough that it drains user bandwidth, it also makes your site slower while scrolling, cause browser have to constantly work on 4K photo(4096 × 3112) and resize it to 600×400 – and this takes time. Still user don’t see any better photo on his small screen.

So you would want to avoid not having responsive images in your theme.

Best photography WordPress themes = best support

Having lots of features, whistles and confetti is not enough to be among best photography WordPress themes. Best products are not much without great support. Photography people have to focus on their art, not on solving theme issues on their own.

So it is important to be backed up by guys that maybe know nothing about photography art, but know much about how themes, WordPress and Web works. Above that they should have pretty good support response times, and be kind. Well, everyone should be kind to be honest:-)

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Best photography WordPress themes collection

Below list is not in any particular order. So each theme should be considered as serious candidate for your site. That is also why we made this list so short, so you could focus on compering each on your own. Have a good hunt!

Wanderlust

The Wanderlust theme is a great choice for photographers and creatives, considering it has a pleasant design, photo-friendly layouts, and multiple customization options to easily match it with your style. The template features an attractive full-width hero image area to show off your best shots, custom gallery posts with large and small banners as well as 3 homepage styles.

The large logo area at the top is great for branding, and you’ll also find a stylish Instagram feed and other social media integration options. Besides, the Wanderlust theme supports video and audio posts so that you can share a wider variety of content. It’s also compatible with the WooCommerce plugin for eCommerce and lots of other nifty plugins.

Skylab

Another very good example of photographic template. Skylab is a photography WP theme with super smooth hardware accelerated slider designed for photographers, graphic designers, and creative people. It’s perfect for showcasing design or photography projects. Using such a theme on your site will make your visitors very impressed. You can buy this WordPress theme on Themeforest.

LENS

Surprising premium WordPress theme aimed at photographers and creatives in need for a solution that focuses on their work. Every feature in Lens was carefully crafted and designed to meet the needs of photographers.

With a stunning minimal, flat design, theme features full-screen slideshows and grid photo galleries. Well designed blog help photographers keep up with their thoughts and visions.

Photography

Clean and minimal responsive portfolio WordPress theme for photographers who need a professional website. Built with the latest WordPress features and technology. Photography has responsive layout so it looks great on all devices. It has predefined designs for photographer, design agency, creative designer which can be imported with one click. Many excellent options will do the perfect job.

SOHO

Soho is a professional WordPress template that will work not only for photographers but also for creative people. Perfectly optimized and extremely impressive. Full-screen is the most important part of the design for photographers so use it on your website.

Rife

With 16+ pre-made designs Rife is multi-purpose theme. It offers plenty of excellent options like WordPress customizer, photo proofing, slideshow & bricks galleries, drag&drop builder and many more. Thanks to these features, you are able to edit almost every single aspect of this theme without having knowledge about programming.

Rife is a multiuse WP theme with visually inspired and completely engaging design. Elegant, responsive & creative WordPress theme perfect for many tasks. The best WordPress multisite in this collection.

Graphic designer and also founder of Apollo13. He is responsible for esthetics of each of our themes. He likes clean and useful design, where content can breath. Big fan of riding bicycles. For some reason Air's dog always try to bite him...

5 comment(s)

Amazing list of themes…Thank you so much. I have just tried Kosmic which is suitable for almost all types of websites. Kosmic theme will lead you to boost your sell to your targeted users.it’s features surely make your website eye-catchy.

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